[UbuntuWomen] UW Wiki spam

[Jan Claeys]

Op vrijdag 19-10-2007 om 20:24 uur [tijdzone +0530], schreef Vid Ayer:
> The UW wiki is having some spam trouble and the admins spend most of
> their time undoing, deleting and blocking it which I am sure you all
> agree is a tedious task. Currently we are looking at locking down a
> few pages on the wiki but that essentially goes against the spirit of
> having a wiki as a collaborative tool in the first place. So we need
> more volunteers to step up and help us keep the UW wiki spam free. In
> return you will get loads of gratitude and thanks for your support :)
> 
> Also, can anyone suggest a long term solution to the spam problem ?

Blacklisting offender IPs might work.

Also, some wikis have a system where every external link has to be
approved (in practice, it oftn works on a domain name level,
whitelisting "friendly" sites).

Something similar is <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow>.

That way, the wiki probably won't be interesting for spammers anymore.


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Jan Claeys